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MS. Add. A. 12

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Petrarch, etc. — 15th century, second half; Italian

MS. Add. A. 25

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M. Marulo — 16th century, early; Italian

MS. Add. A. 44

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Secular and religious verse with some prose ('The Bekynton anthology'); England, early 13th century, additions 15th century.

MS. Add. A. 61

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Geoffrey of Monmouth — 13th century; English

MS. Add. A. 117

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Johannes Sulpicius — 16th century; Italian

MS. Add. A. 118

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Martinus Polonus — 15th century, last quarter; Italian

MS. Add. A. 166

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Juvenal, etc. — 1475; Italian, Rieti

MS. Add. A. 365

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Walter Map, etc. — 15th century, early; English
Guido de Columnis — 15th century, early; English

MS. Add. C. 2

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Bernard Gui — 14th century, second half; French

MS. Add. C. 14

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Petrarch — 15th century, third quarter; Italian, Florence

MS. Add. C. 22 (not found)

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'Matthew of Westminster' — 15th century (?)

MS. Add. C. 141

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Lucan — 14th century, end; Italian

MS. Add. C. 154

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Suetonius — 15th century, first half; Netherlandish (?)
Arnold Geilhoven — 15th century, first half; Netherlandish (?)
L. Annaeus Florus — 15th century, first half; Netherlandish (?)

MS. Add. C. 192

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Silius Italicus — 1455; Italian, Cortona (?)

MS. Add. C. 283

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Justin — 14th century; Italian, Ferrara (?)

MS. Add. D. 1

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History of Europe, from the time of Julius Caesar to the beginning of the 16th century — c. 1520; Italian, North

MS. Add. D. 2

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'Priorista' or register of the chief magistrates of Florence from 1282 to 1511, with additions to 1530, Calendar of civic events in Florence, 1250–1378 — c. 1520–30; Italian

MS. Add. D. 3

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Bernardo Segni — 16th century; Italian

MS. Add. D. 80

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Petrus Comestor — 13th century, beginning; German (?)

MS. Add. E. 7 (R)

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Verses on the kings of England from William the Conqueror to Henry VI — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Add. E. 14 (R)

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Genealogy and chronicle of the kings of England from Brut to Edward I (1272), with additions to c. 1301 — after 1272 - c. 1301; English

MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1

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‘Codex Mendoza’, etc.; A: Mexico, c. 1541 (?); B: England, early 17th century (?)

MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2

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Codex Selden (Codex Añute): Mixtec pictorial manuscript (ñee ñuhu)

MS. Arch. Selden. A. 72 (3)

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'The Selden Roll' or 'The Roll of the New Fire': Mexican pictorial roll or 'tiras' — 16th century, first half (post-Columbian); Mixtec (modern Mexico)

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 8

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Porphyry — 16th century
Gregoras Nicephorus, Aristarchus of Samos, etc. — 16th century
Messahala, Albumazar, etc. — 15th century, second half; English
Untitled work or fragment — 16th century, last quarter
Prophecies — 16th century, middle; English

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 10

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John Harding — c. 1470–1480; English
John Lydgate — c. 1520; English

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 16

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Historical and legal texts, collected by William of Malmesbury — 1129; English, Malmesbury

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 18

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Polybius — 16th century, beginning; Italian
Polybius — 16th century, middle; Italian
Michael Psellos — 17th century, first half; Italian
Alchemical writings — 16th century, beginning; Italian

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 20

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Polybius — 16th century

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 25

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Rámon Lull — 15th century, second half
Pope Pius II (Aeneas Sylvius) — 15th century, second half
Theological treatises, Papal bull of Pius II, 1463 — 15th century, second half
Papal bull of Pius II, 1463, Pronosticationes euentuum futurorum anni [M.CCCC.] lxxvi — 15th century, second half
Calendarial tables — 15th century, second half

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 37

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Polybius — 16th century

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 38

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Polybius — 16th century

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 41

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Ps.-Hippolytus Portuensis — 16th century

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 42

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Hippolytus Thebanus — 16th century

MS. Ash. Rolls 4

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MS. Ashmole 15A
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Coats of arms of sovereigns of Europe and English nobility, Treatise on heraldry, etc. — 14th century, end or 15th century, beginning

MS. Ash. Rolls 21

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MS. Ashmole 25
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Genealogy of the Kings of England from William I to Henry VI, illustrated with verses and medallions — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Ash. Rolls 22

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MS. Ashmole 26
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Genealogy of Christ from Adam, with historical notes and biblical references — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Ash. Rolls 38

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MS. Ashmole 23
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Genealogical chronicle of the Kings of England to Edward II — Multiple dates; English

MS. Ash. Rolls 39

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MS. Ashmole 12
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Genealogy of the Kings of England to Henry V (later continued to Edward V), with historical and prophetic notes — 15th century; English

MS. Ash. Rolls 50

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MS. Ashmole 1773
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Genealogy of the Kings of England to Edward I and the kings of Scotland to John Balliol — 1292 × 1307; English

MS. Ashmole 8

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Calendar with prognosticatory notes, Astronomical table — 14th century, early; English

MS. Ashmole 34

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Fifteenth-century single text codex of John Harding's Chronicle.

MS. Ashmole 54

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Virgil, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 59

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Composite anthology of Middle English verse and prose in two parts, partially the work of John Shirley

MS. Ashmole 189

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The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, Prognostication — 15th century; English
Astrological treatises, Prognostication: Lunary, etc. — 15th century; English
Petrus Hispanus, etc. — 16th century, first half; Flanders
Ps.-Robert Grosseteste, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 304

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Texts on prognostication; England (St Albans), before 1259

MS. Ashmole 337

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Astrological treatise — 15th century; English
Aristotle, etc. — 16th century, second half; English
Astrological treatise, Household expenses and memoranda of John Dee — 16th century, second half; English
Astrological treatises — c. 1600; English
Prophecies, Moral, religious and heraldic extracts — 17th century; English

MS. Ashmole 369

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Terence, etc. — 15th century
Astrological treatises — 15th century
Alcabitius, Zahel, etc. — 13th century
Mathematica Alexandri — 13th century, late
Alkindus — 13th century, late
Albumasar, Albohali — 13th century
Albumasar — 14th century, early
Astrological treatises, canons and figures — 14th century or 15th century
Thomas Aquinas, etc. — 15th century

MS. Ashmole 764

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Aeneas Sylvius, Honoré Bouvet, etc. — 15th century, third quarter - late; English (script); French (decoration)

MS. Ashmole 770

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William Whitelocke — 16th century; English
Coronation order, List of serjeanties at the coronation, etc. — 15th century, beginning; English